first it was Twitter, but now, even the fediverse is becoming shouting into the void.

i mentioned this trend a few months ago, but it's only worsened since then. my signal-to-noise ratio is getting steadily worse. and i'm still failing to make meaningful connections with people, old or new. maybe i'm following the wrong people. or maybe the medium is simply not up to the task for me.

i don't feel at home here, sorry. gonna take another break. maybe things will be different in a few weeks.

Oh, Giant Bomb's community GOTY list is up. Here's mine. I didn't bother submitting it. It's as useless and arbitrary as any other list because it's impossible to play everything that comes out in a year, but here are 10 games I like, and you may like too, if you like the same kinds of games I do

If ever you feel like you're a terrible person, remember Thomas Midgely: the man who gave us *not only* leaded gasoline (using tetraethyl lead, which caused widespread lead poisoning in the fabs that produced the gas as well as devastating environmental effects that are still felt to this day), but *also* developed the first chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which he felt would be too inert to do any "real harm". (Tell that to the ozone layer.)